Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 13:42:02 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Shigetoh Kumagai <shigetoh@zip.com.au> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Console frozen when X-server exited Message-ID: <19981229134202.A32696@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95LJ1.1b3.981229104941.20209A-100000@summer.kumagai.nf>; from Shigetoh Kumagai on Tue, Dec 29, 1998 at 01:50:30PM %2B1100 References: <19981228133104.K12346@freebie.lemis.com> <Pine.BSF.3.95LJ1.1b3.981229104941.20209A-100000@summer.kumagai.nf>
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On Tuesday, 29 December 1998 at 13:50:30 +1100, Shigetoh Kumagai wrote: > On Mon, 28 Dec 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> You're probably out of luck here. The X server is responsible for >> resetting the console, and if it is killed, it doesn't happen. >> >> You can restart the server from the telnet session. There's a good >> (but not excellent) chance that it will work. > > Thank you for your reply! > > I made it work by starting from one of telnet session from another > machine. > > Well, everything works under X-Window, however when I close my X session, > the PC console is still locked. So I had to start X again from telnet. I > wish there are way or tool to refresh or reset the console so I do not > have to reboot soon. > > I wonder how this resetting console should be done. Is there any place or > documentatoins I can look at? As I said, you're out of luck. > BTW, I found kbd_mode(1) but not much effect on console itself(it's only > for keyboard, isn't it?). Well, it's supposed to work, but it's not a FreeBSD program, and it often doesn't. > Keyboard and screen works when > 1) X is running > a) I can switch to console using ALT+CTL+1, then back to X session > pressing ALT+F4. However there is no login prompt or shell session visible > on console when pressing ALT+F1, ALT+F2 or ALT+F3, and no response to > keyboard in either virtual console. If it's only a problem with the login prompt, you can try killing the shell (or whatever) on that virtual terminal. To find what's running on a specific vt (in this example /dev/ttyv0), do: # ps tv0 The `t' option specifies ``only processes running on this terminal'', and ``v0'' is the last two characters of ``/dev/ttyv0''. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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